Gotta Love Those Italians!

[queenslander]

Gotta love those Italians!!
>
> An Italian is drinking in a New York bar when he gets a call on his cell
> phone. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a round of
> drinks
> for everybody in the bar announcing his wife had produced a typical
> Italian baby boy weighing 25 pounds.
>
> Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the
> Italian guy just shrugs, 'That's about average back home,
> folks......like
> I said, my boy's a typical Italian bambino.'
>
> Congratulations showered him from all around, and many exclamations of
> 'WOW'....one woman actually fainted due to sympathy pains.
>
> Two weeks later he returns to the bar.
>
> The bartender says, 'Say you're the father of that typical Italian baby
> that weighed 25 pounds at birth. Everybody's been making bets about how
> big he'd be in two weeks. So how much does he weigh now?'
>
> The proud father answers, 'Seventeen pounds.'
>
> The bartender is puzzled, concerned, and a little suspicious.
> 'What happened? He already weighed 25 pounds the day he was born!'
>
> The Italian father takes a long swig of Sambuca, wipes his lips on his
> shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says.....
>
> 'We had him circumcised.'